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Artistic License

setbacks, artist and designer Rachel Farrington acted on the advice of an architect friend: Do something fun. “It had been a tough year, and I wanted to make a gift for my family and play at the same time,” recalls the painter and sculptor, who’d had few opportunities for manual activities

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